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TIL about Guinea worm disease, a water borne parasite.

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jNYop TIL: Before Walt Disney opened Disneyland he ran out of cash and was unable to remove all the weeds & finish the landscaping. So he wrote the Latin names of the weeds on little signs giving them them the appearance they belonged.
KOgRa TIL the 'ye' in 'ye olde' is pronounced 'the'. In old English, they had a letter for the 'th' sound, þ, which in handwriting looked a lot like the letter 'y' and were often used interchangeably.
rR8o4 Today I learned Canadians have more donut shops than any other country and eat more donuts than any other country's citizens.
Rl99 TIL that Iceland leads the world in books written, published and sold per person. One in ten Icelanders will publish a book during their lifetime.
eRNb TIL that Whole Foods has a salary cap for its executives. They are only allowed to earn 19 times what the average employees is paid.